Doing her bit to defend yoga, External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj said yesterday that 47 Muslim nations were co-sponsoring the International Yoga Day on June 21.

According to Swaraj, who will herself lead the celebrations at the UN headquarters in New York, countries such as Afghanistan, Indonesia, Bangladesh, the UAE and Pakistan are all hosting yoga programmes.

Delhi Law Minister Jitender Singh. (Photo: Getty Images)

The intense political drama that unfolded with the arrest of Delhi Law Minister Jitender Singh in Delhi on Tuesday afternoon, concluded with the minister's resignation later that night.

The AAP minister was arrested on the basis of a criminal complaint filed by the Bar Council of Delhi for forging his law and BSc degrees. Tomar has been accused of cheating, forgery, forgery with purpose of cheating and criminal conspiracy. A trial court - while granting Delhi police four days custody of Tomar - described the arrest as 'farcical'.

A CGI lion appears during the Make in India presentation in Hanover, Germany on 12 April 2015. (Photo: Tobias Schwarz/Getty Images)

The future Congress president's one liners seem to stick, for a change, and inconvenience the ruling coalition. After 'suit boot ki sarkar' Rahul Gandhi, while coming out of a meeting with senior Congress leaders and chief ministers, said that the lion shown in the Make in India campaign seemed powerful but that one couldn't hear his roar.

Rahul Gandhi's statements came after former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh called his successor, Prime Minister Modi, a better salesman than himself. Congress president Sonia Gandhi also criticised the NDA government for its excessive focus on matters outside India.

Army soldiers at the funeral procession of Lance Naik Kuldeep Raj, who was killed in the 4 June ambush in Manipur. (Photo: Getty Images)

An Army statement has said that two separate groups of insurgents were 'engaged' and 'significant casualties' inflicted along the Indo-Myanmar border in Nagaland and Manipur last night.

Media reports that later surfaced claimed that the special-forces unit penetrated into Myanmar and neutralised at least 50 insurgents, said to be involved in the Manipur-ambush of 4 June. The Minister of State for Information & Broadcasting Rajyavardhan Rathore, a former Colonel himself, said last night that these strikes were a message to all countries that were harbouring "terror intent" towards India; he went on to say that "we will strike at a place and at a time of our choosing."

Booking rail tickets will now be easier as IRCTC has added two high-capacity servers that have doubled peak-time efficiency. In a bid to reduce congestion, IRCTC has revised the Tatkal booking system, introducing two booking slots for different categories. From now on, AC Tatkal tickets will be booked between 10-11am and Non-Ac between 11 am - 12 noon. Moreover, 50% of the fare charge will be refunded in case the ticket is cancelled. The move has raised the booking capacity to over 14,000 tickets per minute from the existing 7,200. This is a welcome measure, providing relief to the cumbersome process of booking rail tickets, especially in peak summer months when rail traffic is high.